WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans – This is all complicated stuff, but it smells to high heaven. The simple truth is that it adds another nail in the coffin to the pretense that many nonprofit tax-exempt hospitals care two cents about the poor, who they claim – and are obliged by their tax benefits – to serve. The latest …
Los Mochis Driving across the Mexican state of Sinaloa, no matter you’re preconceived impressions, especially from Culiacan to Los Mochis, you feel like you’re in something close to the breadbasket of Mexico. Hectares after hectares of corn, frijoles, and garbanzos. Is this Bakersfield, California or is this Los Mochis, Sinaloa? El Chapo and the cartel …
Baja California Life and death in the pandemic tragically revealed the shortage in many hospitals, and perhaps the entire healthcare industry, of trained nurses. The problem was so acute that many nurses could earn two and three times their normal pay, if they were willing to travel to some of …